The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-04-29

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/ their preservation and adiustmen yet
! the whole, with the cooking, washing
! and ironing and incessant waiting upon
| a door-bell, will be left to one or two
| over-worked, inexperienced, recently ar
| rived Servants" while the mother is at
| tending to her societies and the daugh-
tiers are on the street Societies are good,
| exercise is good; but neither should in
terfere with the performance of duties in
| which the welfare of the family is in
| volved; and the near future, in the fur
| ther development of the labor movement,
promises to force all the obligations we
may assume upon our own shoulders,
unless, as during the civil war, we can
afford to pay high for a substitute.
One of the good effects which may be
| anticipated will be to get rid of an un-
| pleasant characteristic of our women
as ''nation of ,invalids." The &C
tual facts are not in accordance with this
idea but the impression remains all the
same, and arises from the over-worked
or undeveloped conditions and the
| strained nervous tendencies in which
| these result "Christian Science" Mind
| Cure" and the like, are the outgrowth of
mental disease or disturbance which
drugs cannot reach, and simply mean aid
| in obtaining grip upon the helpful,
| hopeful, courageous side of life. This is
| what women most need. The mere
| complaining woman and the woman who
lives by sucking the life of others, must
| go-their death-warrant is already is
| sued.
| 1t is beginning to be understood that
the exercise and development of natural
| faculty are not hurtful, but healthful
| There has been much discussion of late
in regard to the effect of study upon
| girls. The evidence is overwhelming
that where the hours are regular, as they
| are at school and college, the work uni
form, and the food and habits good, the
| health of girls is improved by steady
| school work, and the enlarging influence
of school life. When ill results follow
| it is in cases where late hours are per-
mitted, where food is irregular, INSULT
cient, or lacking in nutritiye qualities,
| or indulgence in the poisonous sweetness
of candy and cake habitually.
The extinction of the midday dinner
has reduced the midday meal in all large
cities to q mere formula. Men and
women of mature age, who breakfast
| late, often forego it altogether. But
children require at least three meals, and
their luncheon, if it is not q dinner,
| 6AOuAu NC WAL anu OOI1O
| private schools provide hot soup for such
of the scholars as choose to take it, or
whose parents are willing to pay for it,
but even this is not always satisfactory
| it is often thin and greasy, nauseating to
the taste and insufficient for the appe-
| tite. Out of large number of test ex-
aminations made into the condition of
school lunch boxes and baskets in New
York city, only about six per cent seemed
to have received the careful supervision
of the mother the rest contained only
piece of more or less stale cake, or cake
and cheese, or slice of bread and but
| ter, or some crackers. 1t is true that
school luncheon is sometimes problem,
but so much the more need why the
mother herself should attend to it and
solve it.
The appetites of some children are
| capricious; though much less likely to
be so if born of healthy, wholesome
parents. But in any case they have to
be considered and their food adapted to
constitutional peculiarities. The rugged
German constitution is ascribed to daily
rations of bread and soup; the weakness
and dyspepsia so prevalent in America
to cake and ice cream. Food is largely
matter of habit; appetite for special
articles of food is largely matter of
habit. Women have the power to create
and re-create habits and appetites, and
ought to make study of improving the
race in this way, even if their influence
and efforts are confined to their own
family The results a1e not to be effected
by talking, but by doing; by conscien-
tiously acquiring the best methods and
putting them in practice. Good air, good
food and good water are the three great
agents in building up healthy human
bodies, and the house-mother should see
that her family-every member of it
are abundantly supplied with all three.
If the problem of the servant girl
compels women to attend to their own
business and make that of the public at
large secondary, good school luncheons
will reach larger average; and the
qualities necessary to successful house.
hold management be more truly recog-
nized and appreciated. A religion en-
shrined in stone has ceased to be living
principle; an author who has arrived at
the dignity of being illustrated is not
read; so housewifery, which is every
where put into print, was never at lower
ebb, never before so much decorative
sham, so little reality
Foreign service has largely aided in
bringing this about 1t has lowered the
tone of the homework in which our
grandmothers took pride. 1t has made
it "menial." Happy the community,
happy the household, where the minis
trations of wife and mother preserve it's
serenity unbroken and create sweet
and wholesome atmosphere in which all
the virtues live and flourish. Men
do not sufficiently prize this in
fiuence; at least it often seems ass if
they did not. But this is not reason
for sighting our obligations, or neglect
ing our duty. Once in summer walk
Glanced upon an obscure spot so shut
in from outward observation that hardly
the suns rays could penetrate THROUGH
The LEAKAGE. Yet here, down in quiet
dell, it was thickest, most varied, most
beautiful. A little stream trickled over
its messy bed and ferns grew in profu-
sion on its banks, delicate flowers lent
their color and their sweetness, and alto
gether made picture which always lives
in my memory. But the beauty of it all
was that it was content to live it's ex-